What information does Lionel think you need to know? Here's a sampling from today's show:
- This country is 231 years old.
- Threads on blogs are called "threads".
- Bin Laden may be in Pakistan...
- ...but no one really knows.
- We should have supported Pervez Musharraf's nuclear ambitions in exchange for him giving us Bin Laden(!)
- The Surge may result in more violence.
- Lionel doesn't know what "Gordian Knot" means.
- Lionel thinks a female guest who laughs uncomfortably during an interview "digs him".
- He also thinks mentioning this makes him seem cheeky and fun rather than creepy.
- Mice are not like us.
- Lionel doesn't care what his guests have to say when he has a lame joke to get out.
- Lionel thinks some of his listeners are too "dense" to understand stem cells.
- The skin cells used in stem cell research are called "fibroblasts." (key info there)
- Normal cells that turn into stem cells are called Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. (more key info)
- Lionel has no ability to direct an interview toward the key info.
- Monya Baker thinks Lionel's jokes are lame.
- Monya Baker thinks Lionel is lame.
- Lionel can't pronounce "brobdingnagian", but he apparently likes to say it.
- Bush first said he wanted Bin Laden "dead or alive", then he said "I just don't spend that much time on him".
- Those two statements are inconsistent.
- After 9/11, people were in shock. Then later they were, like, "wow".
- Lionel wants to "hammer" Tony Snow.
- Lionel took a crap during the break.
- World War II would have been different if we had had the internet back then.
- People like new stimuli.
- People have too many stimuli.
- Lionel can't pronounce "stimuli".
- History gets revised a lot.
- Lionel tends to ramble a lot.
- Lionel apparently gets an erection while watching Hardball.
- Rep. Phil Gingrey(R) is kind of a douchebag.
- World War II was a "beautiful" war. (Wha??)
- Lionel has apparently never heard of The Fairness Doctrine.
- Lionel either has no call screener or his screener is retarded.
- In case you forgot, they're called "threads", which may be different from "blogs".
- Iraq is a mess.
- Tony Snow tends to lie.
- Lionel thinks "sticking with the issue" is the same as "critical thinking".
- Lionel's show could do with a bit more "critical thinking"
- Lionel likes to use the word "punctilious", even in places where it's not really appropriate.
- Lionel doesn't know the difference between a blog and a thread (seriously).
- Lionel will hijack the conversation in order to demonstrate that he's heard of thermobaric weapons.
- Groups of people with different names tend to be different from one another -- but not always.
- Lionel finds this interesting.
- "Sue ya" is not funny, even once.
What we didn't learn from today's Lionel show:
